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United States — Iowa
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If a presentence investigation is ordered, the investigator must gather specified information, request records from agencies on request, protect certain mental health information unless the defendant authorizes release, and include any ordered examination results in the report.
United States — Iowa
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The presentence investigation report is confidential, but certain parties may access it, and the court controls sealing and disclosure.
United States — Iowa
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A court may order a defendant to complete a substance use disorder evaluation after a guilty plea or guilty verdict, if the court thinks the defendant regularly uses alcohol or other controlled substances and may need treatment.
United States — Iowa
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Before sentencing, the court must check that the defendant and defense attorney discussed the presentence report, let both sides speak, let the defendant speak, and hear any victim present.
United States — Iowa
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The court must consider sentencing options and several required notices and orders when sentencing a defendant.
United States — Iowa
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The defendant must give the defendant’s social security number to the clerk or court before judgment and sentence, or before pleading guilty in a no-court-appearance offense.
United States — Iowa
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If the court is ready to enter judgment, it must pronounce and enter it and record the code section, offense name, and any days credited under section 903A.5.
United States — Iowa
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If a sentence is for more than one year, the court must commit the defendant to the director of the Iowa department of corrections, and the clerk must immediately notify the director.
United States — Iowa
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The judge may make later sentences start after earlier ones, and must do so for certain escape or in-custody crimes. A person in corrections custody generally serves the sentence where already confined unless transferred by the director.
United States — Iowa
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When a defendant is committed to the custody of the director of corrections for incarceration, the trial judge and prosecuting attorney must give the board of parole a full statement of their release or parole recommendations. The defense attorney may also do so.
United States — Iowa
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This provision defines “sexually predatory offense,” “prior conviction,” and “sexually violent offense” for use in the chapter.
United States — Iowa
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People convicted under this section face enhanced prison terms, limits on sentence reductions, and in some cases mandatory life imprisonment.
United States — Iowa
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This provision defines the corrections continuum and requires each judicial district and district department of correctional services to implement an intermediate criminal sanctions program.
United States — Iowa
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This provision defines “expunge” and “expungement” as having the same meaning as “expunged” in section 907.1, unless context requires otherwise.
United States — Iowa
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This section lets a court expunge certain criminal case records when stated conditions are met, and it limits access to the expunged record.
United States — Iowa
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This section lets a qualifying defendant ask the court to expunge a misdemeanor record, but only if the statutory conditions are met and the offense is not on the exclusion list.
United States — Iowa
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This provision requires courts to sentence certain class A felony defendants to life custody or conviction-related custody terms, limits parole for class A felonies, and requires notice and sentencing-factor review in some juvenile murder cases.
United States — Iowa
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For chapter 229, the Iowa corrections director counts as an interested person, and chapter 229 provisions on involuntary hospitalization apply to people committed to the Iowa department of corrections after a public-offense conviction.
United States — Iowa
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People with prior forcible-felony convictions are denied parole or work release unless they have served at least half of the maximum sentence, with stated exceptions.
United States — Iowa
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People serving sentences for certain felonies can be denied parole or work release until they have served a specified portion of the sentence.